"Shoot straight you bastards, don't make a mess of it."
Posted on 02/23/2012 12:03:44 PM PST by ColdOne
KABUL -- Afghanistan wants NATO to put on public trial those who burned copies of the Quran at a NATO base, President Hamid Karzai's office said Thursday, after a third day of bloody protests over the incident.
It said NATO had agreed to a trial, but that could not be immediately confirmed.
Karzai had earlier accused a U.S. officer of "ignorantly" burning copies of the Quran, in an incident that has deepened anti-Western sentiment in a country NATO is trying to stabilize before foreign combat troops leave by the end of 2014.
Demonstrations have drawn thousands of angry Afghans to the streets, chanting "Death to America!" amid violence that has killed 11 people including two U.S. service personnel.
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Time to decamp and leave these fools to their fate of living in mud huts and killing each other. Nation building is a failure.
"Shoot straight you bastards, don't make a mess of it."
Let’s act in accordance with the kind of mercy the Qu’ran dictates - we hang Karzai and nuke the rest of the country.
Long past time, actually. Around 8 years +/-.
I agree. We can leave and they can have all the death they crave.
FMCDH(BITS)
Unfortunately we won’t be leaving them to their own fate. We’ll be leaving them to infect our fate in perpetuity.
We’ve got about two choices here. Encourage the Taliban to enter the 21st century with the rest of civilization, or reduce their numbers.
Will somebody please, get rid of Karzai
I agree with Karsi, since the CIC is in charge, bring him over for trial.
Get US troops out and end the “nation building” fantasy.
A new strategy for Af-Pak should be destabilization. Arm everyone, let them fight each other, and use airpower or special forces as necessary. Same with Pakistan. Encourage them break into their tribal/ethnic/religious factions, and encourage India to dismember them. Make them all weak
It is inevitable Af-Pak will return to a pre- 9/11 situation, but this time, don’t be afraid to attack when/where necessary, or support opponents of any Islamists who return.
It will become messy on the ground, so it is very important that citizens/natives of these countries are not allowed into the USA.
We should have leveled Afghanistan 10 years ago and then left whatever savages survived to clean up the mess. These filthy, duplicitious bastards aren’t worth one precious drop of American blood.
“It said NATO had agreed to a trial, but that could not be immediately confirmed.”
If so, there goes the last shred of respect we should ever have for senior officers—all of whom will have shown that they are nothing more than careerists and shameless bootlickers.
Enough already. I would suggest that we just bomb them back to the stone age, but I think that would be an improvement!
We’ve already signalled to them in no uncertain terms that we’re out of there and washing our hands of it. Is it any wonder that Karzai and everyone else will be quitting on us?
How much worse would it be if it was not an election year? He would be offering them Oklahoma as tribute.
True!
Karzai better hope and pray someone like Newt won’t be next president.
I vote for option B as long as that number is 0.
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